I see the evidence of global warming and the accidents caused by tampering with oil and gas explorations. I see nuclear wastes spilling into our environment, all scientifically provable. I see our children's education devoid of adequate understanding of science and mathematics and I see a growing religious fervor to negate evidence in favor of an outdated document written by men, long before scientists and technological development. These same people use technology and medical advances, yet influence political opinions for their own, private gain. Keeping people ignorant is a sure way to dominate them.

If someone can't stop drinking and driving after three DUIs it seems obvious that s/he can't stop her/himself from drinking and driving. If the rehabilitation regime in the Nekritz-Hasting bill is an iron clad guarantee the individual won't drink and drive, then let's apply it after the second or third DUI. After four DUI *convictions* one should lose the privilege of driving for life. Illinois has plenty of communities served by public transportation. People who can't control their drinking and driving should live there.

As of February 21st, H.R. 4058, designed to protect some of our nation's most statistically "at-risk" youth, has an 8% chance of being enacted. A petition with the names of U.S. citizens who would like to see this passed can provide incentive for our lawmakers to approve the bill in the Committee of Ways and Means, then in the House & Senate, and ultimately by President Barack Obama. Please read through the bill and add your name if your choose to. Thanks for being informed and aware!

Respect-4-Respect Petition is an effort to speak out about the Stand your Ground law specific Harm’s Way effect on African American. WE know it is African Americans, African American teenagers NOW; but, this law will claim other citizenry as time goes by with the same trigger-happy rule-of-thumb. Stand your Ground legally promotes lawlessness, discrimination, stalking, profiling, myths, criminalizing, privilege-to-kill and growing threat of by-design murder. The two recent trials in the state of Florida, in-the-court cases, for the death of two African American teenagers, Trayvon Martin, 17 years and Jordan Davis, 17 years proves that the law Stand your Ground is extremely bias and racial in its intent and implementation. It said the teens were automatically guilty even though they were not the perpetrators. It has sent a message of one-side law and privilege of the Caucasian race dictates rights (human-civil-legal) and one can shoot-and-kill without reprisal. Stand your Ground law fails on many moral and ethical counts. For this petition, we call upon our United States Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Department of Justice to address the harm’s way of the Stand your Ground law in Florida and across the USA. Further, we seek our U. S. Constitution for guidance and enforcement. Stand your Ground law fails on behalf of: • “Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizen in the several states” (U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 2); • “. . . and to petition their Government for a redress of grievances” (U.S. Constitution - Amendment I); • No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any persons within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws (U. S. Constitution – Amendment XIV, Section 1). We summon with urgency through this RESPECT-4-RESPECT Petition for immediate REPEAL of the Stand your Ground law (s) in the USA. We want as MANY signers as we can get to sign. TELL a friend, neighbor, organizations, family member and associates. Post "Embed the PETITION" Widget on your website. This PETITION starts automatically with 50. Let's get that number TODAY. May we have your sign to make this happen? NOTE: MILWAUKEE PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION LLC is NOT asking or seeking funds of any kind. We want you to sign our petition of REPEAL STAND YOUR GROUND LAW. Thank you.

This is not a new idea. I am restating a request to resolve some of our Country's inequities and modestly redistribute funds back into our social services. I'm starting this petition because I want The President to see how many of us support such a fair tax.

In 2012, I fell from a ladder and hurt my hip. I was taken to the hospital, where I waited hours to be seen. After only a few minutes with a physician, I was sent home, but when my bill arrived, I discovered that those few minutes had cost me over $4,000! When I saw the ridiculous prices on that bill, I was outraged. It included charges like $51 for two pain pills. And there was no way for me to know how much I would be charged until the bill actually arrived, and no way for me to know if another hospital nearby might have cost less. If we’re serious about getting the cost of healthcare down, then patients like me and you need to be able to know how much we’ll be charged--before we decide who to see for our care! Help me tell our state legislature that they need to protect patients by giving us the transparency we need to make smart healthcare decisions.

Two years ago, I was hit by a car, and ended up in a coma at Cedars-Sinai. I was there for two weeks before they sent me home, still unable to walk, without physical therapy or pain medication because I didn't have insurance. Then the bills started. $235,000 for those two weeks. I just started crying. And the bills just kept coming. I'm working and feel better now, but the bills are still there. I can never pay this. And my story is just one of thousands. People across California are suffering from outrageous hospital bills. Bills with prices like $21 for a single aspirin tablet, $18 for two Alka-Seltzer, or $35 for a tube of hydrocortisone cream. Hospitals in California charge prices like these every day--overcharging by an average of 300% or more above their actual costs. And these kinds of prices keep many Californians from getting the care they need, and leave others--like me--under a growing mountain of healthcare debt. Meanwhile, the hospital industry in California made more than $4 billion in profits in 2012. We can’t afford it. California’s healthcare providers must bring costs down to reasonable, affordable rates.

We know Pre-K and after-school work. Study after study shows that high-quality investments in early education and extended day learning can boost student achievement and success for years afterward. But today, most children in New York City still don’t have access to free full-day, high quality Pre-K, and tens of thousands of middle school students miss out on educational after-school programs. Universal Pre-K is not a new idea. In fact, Albany has been talking about universal Pre-K ever since 1997. But the money to make it a reality has never come through. To expand Pre-K and after-school, we need a steady, predictable source of funding. That’s why we need Albany to pass UPKNYC’s plan to pay for these critical investments by asking New Yorkers who earn more than $500,000 a year to pay a little bit more in taxes.

Medical marijuana patients in CO have been LAWFULLY growing cannabis at home for 14 years and after passage of A64 in 2012, anyone over 21 can also lawfully grow cannabis at home. The article in the Boulder Magazine accuses lawful growers in Nederland of illegal cannabis gardens and a $5-$8 million dollar underground market with no evidence to back up their claims.

It's unfair for this man to die in prison when murderers and rapists are released every day.

I am urgently starting this petition because people are dying right now on the streets of Kyiv. Under sniper and machine gun fire, as well as under attack of gangs composed of of civilian criminals, organized, armed and supported by the police. Victims include medical workers and journalists, there's no accountability of any kind. The government of Ukraine keeps portraying demonstrators as extremists, while using absolutely criminal tactics and committing atrocities every day. The media in the US is playing neutrality, so crimes against humanity are going virtually unnoticed. Please, show your support and help stop this!

Right now, politicians at the West Virginia statehouse are attempting to ban abortion before the point in a pregnancy where a woman may discover serious health complications. Every pregnancy is different, and a woman and her doctor -- not politicians on the House Judiciary Committee -- should have the ability to make the best decision for her personal circumstances. Politicians should not endanger West Virginia women by blocking access to safe and legal medical procedures. Tell our representatives to keep their hands off our reproductive health care! Act now against House Bill 4588.